{"id":59500,"date":"2025-01-28T19:01:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T19:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/streamers-baffled-by-twitch-ban-on-words-like-simp-and-virgin-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T19:01:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T19:01:43","slug":"streamers-baffled-by-twitch-ban-on-words-like-simp-and-virgin-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/streamers-baffled-by-twitch-ban-on-words-like-simp-and-virgin-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"Streamers baffled by Twitch ban on words like \u2018simp\u2019 and \u2018virgin\u2019 &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Streamers baffled by Twitch ban on words like \u2018simp\u2019 and \u2018virgin\u2019 Twitch: nickmercs, neekolul, timthetatmanSeveral streamers, esports pros and top influencers in the space have been left scratching their heads over Twitch\u2019s bizarre decision to ban words like \u2018simp\u2019 and \u2018virgin.\u2019 The new policy was first announced on December 16 by Twitch COO Sara Clemens, with plans to come into action on January 22, during the company\u2019s \u2018Town Hall\u2019 Twitch stream. Clemens said: \u201cUsing terms like simp, incel, or virgin as an insult to negatively refer to another person\u2019s sexual activity is not allowed under this new policy,\u201d in an attempt to negate the effects of cyberbullying and negative behavior on the platform. Under Twitch&#8217;s new policy, words like &#8220;&#8221;simp&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Streamers baffled by Twitch ban on words like \u2018simp\u2019 and \u2018virgin\u2019 Twitch: nickmercs, neekolul, timthetatmanSeveral streamers, esports pros and top influencers in the space have been left scratching their heads over Twitch\u2019s bizarre decision to ban words like \u2018simp\u2019 and \u2018virgin.\u2019 The new policy was first announced on December 16 by Twitch COO Sara Clemens, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}